Round Hill (Heard)
| Round Hill | ||
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| height | 380 m | |
| location | Heard ( Heard and McDonald Islands ) | |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ S , 73 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Round Hill is a 380 m high, round and ice-free hill on the island of Heard in the southern Indian Ocean . It rises south of Fairchild Beach between Compton Glacier and Brown Glacier .
Participants in the British Challenger Expedition (1872–1876) carried out a rough mapping in 1874. In 1948 it was measured and descriptively named by scientists from the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions .
Web links
- Round Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Round Hill on geographic.org (English)